Engineering for your project, designed with the right balance of performance and cost

EVstudio functions as both the in-house structural department for projects where we are the architects and also as a structural engineering consultant for owners, contractors and other architects. We also provide construction observation services along the Colorado front range.

We work with a broad range of private and public clients on Commercial and Residential project types including single family housing, multi-family housing, schools, offices, medical, retail industrial and performance spaces. We offer a variety of engineering services to fit our clients’ needs:

Wood and light gauge steel framing

Spread footing, drilled piers and helical piers

Slab foundations including post tensioned slabs

Shoring design

Log and timber frame structures

SIP – Structural Insulated Panels

ICF – Insulated Concrete Forms

Site retaining walls, abutments and keystone walls

Block, brick and stone

Steel and concrete

Structural forensic engineering

Evaluation and repair drawings

Construction administration

Engineering reports and detailed documentation

Expert witness

Value engineering and efficient design

Construction Observations

We use a wide range of software to meet our client’s needs including Revit, AutoCAD, RAM products, Blackpoint, Sapphire, Tedds, Tekla, PTSlab, DeepEX and other products as they become available to keep us on the cutting edge.

Our Director of Structural Engineering is Jim Houlette, PE. Jim leads a team with over 75 years of structural engineering experience. Some of the team’s recent work includes designs for national home builders, multi-family over podium slab, hotels and forensic work throughout Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas and Saskatchewan, Canada. He can be reached at extension 44.

EV Studio also provides construction observations in the Colorado market.

We have a great team that works together to cover the entire Front Range. The team is led by Senior Inspector
Alex Knuth who oversees our  field inspectors and technicians. The observation team does not work on a Pass/Fail
philosophy; we will work with you to keep construction on schedule and moving forward. This means that we
will not fail your inspection and walk away. We work with contractors during our inspections to discuss and
recommend resolutions to issues as they are observed. Our goal is to keep all parties involved on our projects on
track and profitable.

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Praise

"The most specific example of the advantage our team received from Jim [Houlette] was his willingness to evaluate the structural foundation design to allow us to utilize readily available material, mitigate the potential cost of delay and reduce the cost of the installation by $40,000.00. Teamwork was the key and he understood this." - G. Allan Williams, Jr., Turner Construction